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the first signer of this bye-law, and thence appears at the 

 time to have been President of the Board of Whaling 

 Commissioners. The principal dispositions of the order 

 are as follows : When a vessel is wrecked, and her crew 

 leave her, the first ship they meet is obliged to take them 

 on board, and is entitled in her turn to transmit half of the 

 men saved to the next vessel she hails. Such victuals as 

 may be brought on board by the wrecked crew shall be 

 consumed by themselves ; if they have none, they shall be 

 fed out of Christian charity, and be obliged in return to do 

 a common sailor's work. 



If the crew do not leave the wrecked vessel, her com- 

 mander shall be free either to accept or refuse salvage by 

 others, as long as he remains in or near his ship. Whoso- 

 ever finds a ship abandoned, shall be free to take her cargo 

 and whaling gear on board, and on coming home be 

 entitled to one half of the goods saved, the other half to be 

 given up to the owner, without any further claim upon him 

 for salvage-money, freight, &c. 



Sailors, whether serving on monthly-wage or share in the 

 returns (Maentgelders of Parteniers) shall be entitled to 

 nothing out of the value or cargo of a whaling vessel 

 abandoned by them. If they have remained near her and 

 aided in the salvage, they shall be entitled to their wages, 

 &c., to the amount of one-fourth of the value of the goods 

 saved, and have no pretension whatever on the other three 

 parts. 



A vessel's crew having killed a whale and been prevented 

 from appropriating it, remains entitled to the fish as long 



Hamburg, Bremen, and Emden, were accustomed, as regards whaling, 

 to sail in the Republic's wake ; i.e. join their fleets to hers and sail 

 under a common convoy, cf. Zorgdrager p. 178. 



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